His Chinese partner even tried calling police to see if they could help them make the evacuation flight.
A British father, his Chinese wife and their newborn baby are stuck at the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak after losing a race to catch an evacuation flight home.
UK citizens living in the city of Wuhan complain they were not given enough time to make it onto the plane, which took off at 9.45am local time on Friday. Britons have complained of Government arranged pick-ups arriving too late and travel documents being handed at the very last minute.arrived at RAF Brize Norton at 1.30pm this afternoon.Adam’s family only learnt they could travel together hours before the plane was due to leave It is understood the FCO sent consular cars and issued special travel permits to get people past road blocks in the city, which authorities have put on lockdown.
‘She phoned the police to see if they could arranging something, but nothing.Adam and Su’s son Austin is just four weeks old and is yet to be vaccinated ‘But unfortunately by the time he arrived – because we had some trouble getting him to get to the right spot to pick us up – by the time he was there, we only had about 15 minutes to get to the airport, so we thought “it’s too late” so we just went home.
Adam and his wife Su are yet to get their baby Austin vaccinated after deciding it was far too risky to take him to Wuhan’s hospitals, which are packed with thousands of infected patients.Some families have turned down a seat on the repatriation flight after being told relatives with Chinese passports would not be able to join them, after the People’s Republic forbade them from leaving the country.
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